Kickstart Exam Day 1 .... =)

I have been "tegur"ed by a few people for putting up the smiley face already .... haih ... what's wrong with this Jia Hui? Sadistic ke? Go and put a smiley face on exam countdown ... One : I love exam because no lesson and the feeling after a paper is over is so AWESOME ... can't wait to burn all the notes !!! Two : There are many things to look forward to after this exam ... =)

This semester is a bit relaxing for me. Took 5 units (as opposed to the normal 6, my darling took 7 !!!!) ... 1 of them is 100% coursework aka no written exam. So, I am left with 4 units. So happen all these exams were arranged a day after the other, making my exam period as short as 6days (2 days being the weekend) ... so thankful mine doesn't drag all the way to the end of the exam season (UNLIKE ENGINEERING ... lol). This gives me an extra week or so to go back to Malaysia, have a bit of fun ... then come back for Summer Research Project (得闲吾事做).

Having said that, today's exam didn't go as well as I thought it would be. The first paper was Modern Chemistry aka Fundamental Chemistry (Inorganic) .... revolves around rates, NMR, equilibria, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry and MI FAVORITO DEL TODOS - ACID BASE CHEMISTRY (我的死穴). Mostly A-level stuff, and I actually thought it would not be the toughest subject.

To start with, this is the first time this lecturer (a French woman) took charge of this course. She did her postgrad in Bristol. Need I say more about her expectations ... =.= ... Exam format changed .... she loved calculations so much there was not even one question which required explanation.

The WORST part : NMR. At this level, based on the past year papers, we select the compound (out of a few) by looking at the NMR spectrum. This time there was a twist. She gave us a specturm- the real one as produced by the NMR machine and asked us to guess what compound it is with as little information as the molecular formula. 13 marks .......... =.= .......... the compound was an 11C compound with a degree of unsaturation of 6 !!!!! Omg .... imagine the possibilities that can make up this number ... well, in short, I screwed this part up really bad .... T_T

Come to think about it, I shouldn't be suprise. After all, this is NTU ... no matter how tough the paper is, there will still be some freaking geniuses who will score 100. Let's hope this time fewer get that ... or else my cGPA will drop drastically ... Moving on, examen espanol is next in line ... start memorising ..... =(